Example sentences of "[adj] more than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No issue has confirmed this more than the environment , where public as well as legislative pressure has helped produce a surge in environmental programmes across industries , particularly in the US . |
| 2 | Clumping of cones of the same type is apparent , but is this more than the chance aggregation that arises in any random distribution ? |
| 3 | Nothing exemplified this more than the campaign for public economy which shook the government in 1921 . |
| 4 | Suppose I can identify a range of cases in which I am wrong more than the putative authority . |
| 5 | Its first two blast furnaces employing 50 men were upgraded within four years to employ 300 more than the population of the whole parish . |
| 6 | Ramsey was unusual in that to him the priest 's ordination meant much more than the deacon 's ordination . |
| 7 | I would like to examine them with you this evening , because they appear to me to contain much more than the permissible percentage of nonsense . |
| 8 | The idea behind trying to get together with Imperial was to create a world-size food company with , as it happened , tobacco money to back it up , because the cashflow from tobacco is much more than the tobacco business actually requires to sustain it . |
| 9 | This unofficial ‘ Mk II ’ V8 is much more than the flagship saloon Audi wanted from the start and a fitting testament to a decade of technological advancement . |
| 10 | Given what we now know , this is much more than the expected attempt to find out a demon 's identity , though it sounds very like it . |
| 11 | Interest in Longhorn cattle is now based on much more than the breed 's aesthetic appeal . |
| 12 | Much more than the name has changed . |
| 13 | The word favoured by headline-writers was ‘ tarnished ’ , although any lustre North had had in the media was not much more than the borrowed glow of stars whom he superficially resembled . |
| 14 | The reinstatement was thorough , taking place over two years and costing much more than the original estimate . |
| 15 | But since the scheme is a good one , and since it is only viable if some people sacrifice a lot , it is a justified scheme , even though one may be called upon , according to fair procedures , to contribute much more than the antecedently expected sacrifice . |
| 16 | 16.2 Reading is much more than the decoding of black marks upon a page : it is a quest for meaning and one which requires the reader to be an active participant . |
| 17 | Today , helped along by Fitch Benoy 's latest radical interventions , the accretion is happily much more than the sum of its parts . |
| 18 | But the western railway dreams encompassed much more than the settling of immigrants or the taming of native peoples ( throughout the world railways were credited with this ‘ pacificatory ’ role ) . |
| 19 | The idea of filling the engravings with white greatly added to the legibility , but the conventional cylinder ( just over two inches in diameter ) had insufficient space for much more than the title . |
| 20 | UPJOHN , the maker of the controversial injectable contraceptive , Depo-Provera faces much more than the unspecified objections of health minister , Kenneth Clarke , if it is to reverse Clarke 's decision to ban the use of the drug as a long-term contraceptive in Britain . |
| 21 | Heber 's grants from the federal government for raising IQs totalled in the millions of dollars , much more than the usual federal funding level , and the results he claimed were comparably out of the ordinary . |
| 22 | If trains on a branch line are cut then the railways may lose much more than the income from fares on the branch . |
| 23 | She used her face and hands much more than the average Englishman , though perhaps not more than the average Italian . |
| 24 | The costs involved in astronomy satellites cover much more than the detectors or telescopes and even the cheapest astronomical satellite now costs around £60 million . |
| 25 | Men and women work all day and at the end of the week those in waged work get a wage packet which does n't buy much more than the necessities of life . |
| 26 | Jason Burke discovered much more than the clichés of Paris , and decided that a short visit need not be too expensive . |
| 27 | To enter this competition — just study the three simple questions below and then call our 24 hour hotline — it will cost you not much more than the cost of a first class stamp . |
| 28 | Healthy eating is about much more than the kinds of food we eat . |
| 29 | Of course , faith is much more than the absence of doubt , but to understand doubt is to have a key to a quiet heart and a quiet mind . |
| 30 | My attitude is that somebody has to do the job and if I get bumped off , I have experienced much more than the average bloke . |